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How Quakers Can Support the Troops?

Shortly after submitting this article to Friends Journal, about soldiers resisting deployment, I was stunned by the news from Ft.… DavidMorse

A Quaker’s Quest in Poland

Poland wouldn’t have been my first choice as a tourist destination. I had too many troubling memories going back to… Lyndon S. Back

What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?

With the election of Barack Obama in November 2008, it seemed for a time that, as a people, we might… Susan Waltz

On Paying Attention

Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with… Noah Baker Merrill

Into the Abyss and Back

Held in the Light: Norman Morrison’s Sacrifice for Peace and His Family’s Journey of Healing By Anne Morrison Welsh, with… Robert Dockhorn

A Family Responds to Suspicionless Drug Testing

he whole issue started in the spring of 2006 when I was a freshman in high school. The school district… Gilbert Ambler

Language and Friends Witness

In our era of mass media, the world is not just "too much with us," as the poet William Wordsworth… Harold Branam

Irony in Grade Four

My nine-year-old daughter’s two favorite words this school year have been "sarcastic" and "ironic." Sarcasm was fairly easy to master—after… Jeanine M. Dell'Olio

Pilgrim in a Barren Land

After midnight, even on an unseasonably mild November evening, the late-working staffers have gone home and the tourists are back… Laurel Beckett

Violence on the Playground: An Everyday Struggle

I am standing in the hallway after the students have left, towering over a six-year-old boy who is squeezing showy… Hannah C. Logan Morris

Concerned about Israel and/or Palestine: Perhaps We Are Part of the Problem

In October 2008, I traveled to the West Bank on behalf of Friends World Committee for Consultation-Europe and Middle East… Lindsey Fielder Cook

Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: The Risks that Faith Asks

On April 29 of this year, I was blessed to attend the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI) in Washington,… Stephen Dotson
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